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up as a picture gallery . The style of entertainment has not yet been announced , bnt every endeavour , Mr . Hollingahoad stites , will be made to render it worthy of the best traditions of tho theatre , whioh has bad at various times such celebrated managers as Mr . Maddox ,

Mr . Charloj Keati and Mr . Wilson Barret 1 ' . Playgoers are indebted to Mr . Hollingshead for many concessions , nttably the free pro . gramnip , and we aro sure that onr brethren will unite with us in sending him beat ty good w ' uhoa for his success in this new venture .

Tho present programme of tbe Mohawk Minstrels at the Royal Agri . cultural HaU isan exceptionally fctrongone , containing as itdoes several fresh items . The new sketches are both lively and amusing , while the first part is as good as ever . We notxe that tho management have recently engaged one or two fresh singers ; this should help to keep the Mohawks well to the fore in public estimation .

It will be welcome intelligence to the theatrical aud musical world that a new agency has been commenced by Bro . Geo . H . Brooks & Co ., at 91 Bridge Street , Manchester , nearly opposite to the Queen's Theatre . It is termed the " Go Ahead , Up-to-Date , " an exceedingly expressive title , and stirts with an admirable prospectus . Every

kind of Thespian and musical business , such as dramatic performances , concerts , & c , will be transacted , tours booked , companies and artistes provided , engagements negotiated , garden parties , fetes , and bazaars managed and conducted , halls and theatres will be let for balls , concerts and performances , while ladies and gentlemen

desirous of adopting tbe profession will be duly coached in every branch . Advice and instruction will also be given to beginners . Our Manchester representative tells us he is personally acquainted with some of the managers of the firm , who are prominent Freemasons , and as such should receive the support of our Masonic readers .

Anagrams.

ANAGRAMS .

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IN Stephen Collet s ( Byerley ) " Relics of Literature , " we find thai "Mistris Mary Page , " who flourished in the time of Charles I ., was the most prolific anagrammatist England ever produced , for she devoted a whole volume to the publication of anagrams and

acrostics composed by herself . Princes , peers , judges , and prelates , to the number of four hundred and twenty , are both anagrammatised and aoroatioised in her " Fame ' s Rowle . " John Weymes , Earl ol Weymes , was one whom she honoured in the following really good transposition , " staiy men joy . " The acrostic is as follows : —

"In your great honour , free from all alloy , 0 truly noble Weymes , you shew men joy ; H aving your virtues in their clearer sight , N othing there is can breed them more delight .

W ith joy yonr wisdom so doth men content , E ver we pray it might be permanent ; Y our virtuous life doth breed so great delight ; M en wish you endless joy you to requite ; E ternal joy may unto you succeed , S hewing men joy who do your comfort breed . "

An anagrammatist made out of General Monk ' s name a chronogram , making a date as well as an anagram . Thus , Georgius Mon " ke , Bus de Aumarle , was found to form Ego regcm reduxi , Anno Sa . M . D . Q . L . V . V , ; in English , George Monk , Duke of Albermarle , "I restored the king , in the year of safety ( Sa . for Salutis ) 1660 . "

A correspondent in the " Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News , " reverting to the contention raised whether Lord Bacon or Shakespeare should be credited with the works popularly associated in our minds with the genius of the latter , says : — " Everyone knows Shakespeare's epitaph , of whioh I am informed the following is the correct version—I mean that it is spelt and cut as below : —

GOOD I'KEND 1 'OK JESUS SAKE I'OKBEARE TO DIG T—E DUST ENCLOSED HE—RE BLEST BE X—E MAN , YT SPAKES THESE BONES AND CUKST BE HE YT MOVES 3 IV BONES . Out of the letters composing these lines , wonderful as it may seem , the following may be constructed : —

LET THYS MO . BE TO DESYDE DOUBTS . 1 'IIS BACON , BEN JOHNSON , BEAU . MONT , FLETCHER , GKEENE GAVE SOME AYDES FOR SHAKESPEARE ' S THEATRE . OOD REST HIS DUST . Of course the reader will teat this ; and he will find thafc ifc is absolutely correct , letter for letter , except that three ' it ' s' and an A' are missing ; bufc it is claimed that the cross bars of fche

abbreviations , which occur four times , supply the deficiency . It is odd , no doubt , bnt I am a staunch Shakesperian , and the coincidence does nofc in the faintest degree affect my belief that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare ' s plays . " Another correspondent in the samo paper gives tho following anagram on the epitaph : —

SHAKESPEARE ' S THEATRE SEEN , GO TO THE JIERMAYDE , L-RIDAY STREET . BACON ( BOSS ) , BEAUMONT , I ' LETCHER , JOHNSON USED TO GETT VERY FUDDLED ON BEER , B . S ., G . S ., S . S . S . " « » . " H" * Johnson , he points out , is superfluous , and so ia tho T in " gett " but tbespelling is quite in keeping with the original . ine

•» s co concluding capitals , " B . s ., " ho suggests , means brandy and soda , " o . s ., " gin and soda , " s . s . s . " indefinite repetitions . The fact tnat soda water was not invented is a detail . Owen , the Welshman , previously referred to , had a happy knack ot making his anagrams epigrams , aud sometimes , in two lines , owiated one word several ways : —

Anagrams.

" Since brevity of speech so charms the ear , Let no verbosity in thine appear . " The Romans crowned their great men with the laurel , an ever

green , and the English , who perpetuate many of their customs , by a curious fiction award tbe laurel to tho acknowledged poet of the day by granting him a substantial pension : hence the term " poet laureate . " The poet Waller had fche " liwrel" in his patronymic : —

" His brows need not with lanrel to be bound , Since in his name with lawrel he is crowned . " ( To be continued ) . " Book of Rarities , " by Bro . EDWARD ROBERTS P . M . Asst . P . G . T

The Pontypridd Railway Disaster.

THE PONTYPRIDD RAILWAY DISASTER .

A CLAIM for £ 1 , 000 haa been received by Messrs . Cassell and Company from the representatives of Mr . W . A . Williams , of Llantwifc Main Cottage , Llantrisant , who met with his death in thia accident . It is stated thafc Mr . Williams had duly signed and left at homeacopyof Cassell ' s Saturday Journal of 9 th August . The matter is now being investigatsd by the Provident Clerks and General

Accident Insurance Company , Limited , through whom the Cassell s Saturday Journal Insurance is effected , with a view to payment of the claim if substintiated . It will be remembered that the case of Mr . Williams was a peculiarly sad one . He was employed as chief

clerk to Mr . James C . Spickett , solicitor , Pontypridd , and had arranged to start in practice as a solicitor at Whitby in a few days ' time . He had with him hia little boy , who is suffering from a severe scalp wound .

Ifc may interest our readers intending to visit the Gardening and Forestry Exhibition , at Earls Court , to learn thafc Bro . James Stevens , whose popular lectures on the Symbolism of Craffc Masonry have been so highly appreciated in many Provincial Lodges during the past few years ,

is delivering a series of lectures on " Australia , and the Australian Irrigation Colonies " in the Lecture Hall of fche Exhibition , on Thursday evenings weekly . The settlements of Mildura , in Victoria , and Renmark , in South Australia

are rapidly becoming widely known as frnifc producing districts of a very remarkable character , and Bro . Stevens ' descriptive statements , illustrated by numerous dissolving views of an attractive character , are exciting much attention .

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